Improvement in whips



A. B. KlERSTED.

Whips.

Patented May 28,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED B. KIEItSTED, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMP RQVEMENT IN WHIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 127,246, dated May 28,1872.

' stock, showing my improvement. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar elevations,showing modifications of my improvement; Fig. 4, a cross-section of Fig.2. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this improvement is to impart additional strength,elasticity, and durability to whip-stocks, and also to effect aneconomy.

in their manufacture. The invention is applicable especially to thejointed or socket-whips in which the stock or body is divided, the partsbeing united for use by means of screwjoints. My invention consists,principally, in the application of an elastic filling with the metalliccore of a whip, and in connecting the handle proper with the otherportion of the whip, as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, A is the handle proper, which is made of metal so as toalso constitute the weight of the whip. B is a metallic core, madeeithersolid 'or hollow, composed preferably of the best steel, so formedas to present the greatest amount of strength and flexibility with theleast weight. The lower part of this core is attached by any suitablemode of fastening to or within the handle A, from which it rises to ornear the tip of the whip. In the case of the jointed whip the upper endof the core is firmly attached to the lower end of the screw-socket b,as shown, which thus securely connects the said socket with the handleor stock of the whip. The core may be made to pass partly through thehandle, as shown in Fig. 1, or wholly through, as in Fig. 2, in whichlatter case a nut, d, fits on a thread .on the lower end of the core, asshown. The skeleton whip-stock, made as above described, is filled outand completed by surrounding or filling the space between the handle andthe tip of the stock with suitable filling material, C, such as rubber,whalebone, rattan, or wood, or by a combination of some or all of thesesubstances, the parts composing the filling being united by cement orattached in any other suitable manner. When thus filled the whip-stockis finished by weaving upon it an exterior envelope, a, of fibrousmaterial, after which it is varnished, all in the usual manner.

The filling which I most prefer is composed of rubber G, which, as shownin the drawing, Fig. 2, surrounds the metallic core B, the latter beingembedded in the rubber. The rubber is then surrounded by strips of woodfilling G or other suitable materials, arranged as shown. In some casesthe filling is to be wholly composed of rubber.

For cheaper whips I surround the metallic core with an elastic fillingthat is less expensive than the rubber-as, for example, rat tan-and insome cases I make the whip-stock and handle of one piece, A, of wood orother substance, D, and insert in the metallic core B, in the centerthereof, substantially as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

I do not limit or confine myself to the precise form or arrangement ofany of the parts herein described, as they may be varied in many wayswithout departing from my invention.

' Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- 1. The rubber filling G, applied to the metalliccore B and surrounded by rattan or other equivalent material, as setforth.

2. The part 0, the weight or piece A, socket '1), core B, and itsscrew-nut, all arranged as specified.

ALFRED B. KIERSTED. Witnesses WM. W. STONE, WM. Y. BEACH,

